HDF 371 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article: Central Link, Longitudinal Study, Land Values

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Human Development and Family Sciences
• Course: HDF 371
• Professor: F Varner

Document Summary

The life course of developmental theory article by glen h. elder, jr: A central premise ties together the studies presented in this article: the notion that changing lives alter developmental trajectories. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, three pioneering longitudinal studies of children were launched at the university of california, berkeley: the oakland growth study (birth years 1920- 1921), the berkeley guidance study (birth ears 1920-1921), and the berkeley growth study (also 1928-1929). The modest beginning established by these studies represents a key event in the remarkable growth of longitudinal research, centered on human development across the life course. The re(cid:272)ords (cid:271)roade(cid:374)ed elder"s (cid:448)isio(cid:374) of li(cid:448)es and revealed the dramatic instability of families under changing economic conditions, the great depression. U(cid:272)h e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts, fo(cid:272)used elder"s atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) o(cid:374) (cid:449)a(cid:455)s of thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge, life path(cid:449)a(cid:455)s, and individual development as modes of behavioral continuity and change. Life transitions are always part of social trajectories that give them distinctive meaning and form.